#artefactporn

[tamrudraws]

masked creature design inspired by this artifact i found on r/artefactporn

#artefactporn #artifact #art history #mask design #masked creature #creature #monster #creature design #character design #character illustration #pencil sketch #mixed media

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

“A Roman temple-theater complex rediscovered by chance on February 2000 in Monte San Nicola, Italy. Located on a tip of a mountain (about 450 m above sea level ), the complex dates back to the 4th century BCE”

[eucanthos]

Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12 - 41)

Roman emperor from 37 to 41 AD

Caligula marble bust, with Cuirass and Crown of oak leaves "corona civica." Photo: Sergey Sosnovskiy 2008. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen (inv. 1453) [edited img]

On January 24th, AD 41, Caligula, his wife Milonia Caesonia and his 2 y/o daughter, Julia Drusilla, were stabbed to death by officers of the Imperial Guard.

The assassins immediately proclaimed a new emperor: Claudius (the uncle). On the same day, portraits of Caligula were thrown into the Tiber. Three of the ca. 45 known portraits of Caligula were in fact found in that river. This cuirass bust is one of them.

Caligula’s brief reign and life is the fascinating story of a boy-emperor, who, in the early years of the Roman Empire, tried to make Rome an absolute monarchy but failed. A reckless ruler against conservatism, tarnished by his enemies as a madman, tyrant, pervert – one of the worst Roman emperors.

Member of a revered family, Caligula was wildly popular. Unlike his paranoid uncle Tiberius, Emperor Caligula was a charismatic and benevolent young man. Immediately after taking the throne, he ended treason trials, granted amnesty to the exiled, and abolished unfair taxes...

Caligula: 18 Facts on the “Mad” Roman Emperor - The Collector, Aug 16, 2023

https://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=2172

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuirassed_bust_of_Caligula,found_in_Rome,_AD_37-41,_Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptotek,_Copenhagen(13192017765).jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/5037962882

https://www.thecollector.com/caligula/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/5wyght/marble_bust_of_the_roman_emperor_caligula_31/?rdt=44964

#Caligula #history #marble #bust #masterpiece #sculpture #portrait #politics #Roman #nobility #royal #young

[ancientorigins]

When photos of the faux-book first began to circulate online it was considered a hoax. The image was featured on the ArtefactPorn subreddit and commenters quickly denounced it as a fake, a mere cabinet of curiosities, or a genuine artifact but one that was not as old as it claimed. All of these allegations were proven wrong. Popularly called the Assassin’s Cabinet of Poison, it was originally bound around the year 1600. The pages of the book were then glued together to form a large block. This was then hollowed out and 11 tiny drawers were installed inside as well as a little glass jar. Each drawer had a silver knob and a handwritten label of the lethal compound stored inside.

[liminalflares]

“Death blowing bubbles,” [the bubbles symbolize life's fragility] one of the several depictions of death created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany.

via /r/ArtefactPorn

#memento mori #death #Terry Prachett #Good Omens

[minicheck]

Octopus, Japan.

Via /r/ArtefactPorn

#animal #japan #octopus #wood

[jacques-le-fataliste-23]

Life size wooden statues of the Niō Guardians at Sanjūsangen-dō, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. 12th century CE, Kamakura Period.

Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/ufpnmv/life_size_wooden_statues_of_the_ni%C5%8D_guardians_at/

[isingidanceidothings]

[bodombeach-terror]

#history #ancient egypt

[prickly-p-wave]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/vagb4j/ornamental_and_figurative_basrelief_on_an/

[basi1isks]

Medieval gold ring with heraldic motifs of a dragon, 15th century, made in Dubrovnik. Collection of National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade (x)

#shiny #hoard #ring #medieval art #dragon #engraving #artefactporn #reddit link #mine #well its my post #serbian art

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

i decided to make a reddit account just to find things that are interesting to casually look at/read about, but i don’t really know where to start. can y’all recommend me your favorite subreddits that are just low-stress cute, funny, educational, interesting?

#personal #like i just saw r/artefactporn and that's definitely one i'd like to look at #twitter is so stressful i'd just like to have interesting things to fill my time

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

Isle of Lewis chessmen from the National Museum of Scotland

[eucanthos]

Unknown

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Oversized marble head of the goddess Hygeia (health) ~ 5-4 th BC, Feneos, Peloponnese Archeaological Museum of ancient Feneos, Greece

The image is fabricated.

The large Head was meant to be seen from a lower position. Source photos odd/misleading, feel strange... [links bellow]

Here the rare eyes (inlays into alabaster w worn metal eyelashes) were “molded” based on pupil shape and position). Et voilà, a digital beauty!

The Asclepieon (healing temple of god Asclepius) was first discovered in 1958 and between 2007 and 2014. Inside there is an inscribed pedestal on which two statues stood – Asclepius and Hygeia. Asclepius was seated, three times the size of normal. His daughter, Hygeia, was standing upright beside him at twice normal size!

Attributed to Athenian sculptor Attalus (? ibtimes)

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-greek-healing-temple-feneos-site-excavated-by-archaeologists-photos-1524911

detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/tvawym/detail_of_a_marble_statue_of_the_goddess_of/

https://twitter.com/caraa_center/status/1506673396725264387

https://ddounas.com/2015-04-06-16-28-17/2015-04-06-16-29-11/23-2018-09-07-12-42-40

#Marble #Head #Hygeia #medical #temple #Feneos #gr #large format #distortion #manipulation #eucanthos #portrait

[onemoretime]

Bronze shield with a gazelle

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/c6icrc/bronze_shield_with_a_gazelle_713x1024/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

[peashooter85]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/i3a7fr/battle_axe_from_the_tomb_of_queen_ahhotep_thebes/

#history #antiques #axe #ancient history #bronze age